”Ideology is the study of any body of beliefs, doctrines, values held by a single individual or by a group or a culture.”
The textbooks are what they are … new snapshots based on less than perfect translations of old things. I propose any difference existing of the ancients with today’s society would essentially be that we are just catching up with the prior state of the art or science of past epic days.
Ideology can as a word be decomposed to understand its elemental meaning.
“Ide” has been forged out of forgotten Endo-European tongues that bind the construct of more modern words: Idè ->
In some vague intuition, I believe this is more about self-thought “cognition” at the first moment one ties together correspondence to any object real or virtual.
The terms would also break down further into Idè -> both “i” one being part of who you are on the surface with e being the eureka part of the cognition while “ id” as self and the “id” suggest something more Freudian in our subconscious.
Let us not forget the “ology” … more straight forward … the study of some category of things, people, methods, or just a sandbox of thought you choose to master and investigate.
Philosopher would review this as ideologies are what a class or a group of people would hold as their basic shared basis for a culture. Many philosophers misuses the term “ideology” to a degree that most in academia would accept todays use rather than what the Indo-European roots would suggest.
The Greeks are often credited with the art and science of Rhetoric. I was shocked that the modern academics would not look further back along the forensic timeline. Ancient Greeks gloried telling their stories with arguments to teach their young leaders how to accomplish control their tongue first, then how to use the tongue to control others. This was tradition of societies who trained their future elite for over five thousand years prior to the Greek city-states.
Even to the courts of the Pharaohs, the Emperors of China and the Emperor of Japan, the methods of how a topic was to be touched, written, spoken, argued, and apologetically argued further to promote polite warfare with words well-spoken to scratch the ears of men.
I do not see a difference in how the ancients or moderns differed much. The classical approach to rediscovery by Western Academics is the initially present a biased seed that it all began in Greece. We know of societies much older were in the Americas. Iconic structures some once only associated with Egypt have been found all over the Earth. As ancient languages have become decode, there is clear evidence of advance math, science, chemistry, medicine, rhetoric, government, language development, and much more.
I have been a computer programmer and hardware designer most of my life. I know 21st societies are rediscovering, remastering, and reconnecting the dots on language, history, and all other knowledge areas. When I wrote my first instructional Nano code or discovered how to write a virtual Turin Machine to solve a problem for Gulfstream Aerospace, the realization that we must treat words as power was breathtaking.
The age of object oriented program languages was just begun in force during the 1970s. Software students viewed this language advancement as a bold step into the future but it was actually based on concepts found in India among the ancient writings dating thousands of years. Linux was founded on the construct of recursion and recursive algorithms.
The energy in that power put to work is the thought we convey. Shocking this is not a discovery. There are primitive examples in history that goes to Chinese, Hindu, and more younger societal ancient writings that the word themselves could do more than change the hearts or minds of men or women but the mere face of existence itself.
Greek foundations in Rhetoric rest on the meta of languages and of the lost languages that we have inherited from our own ancestors that go beyond our own tongues claimed at birth.
Regardless of whether you believe ideology is the study of thought itself or the classification of societal boundary by their common foundational beliefs is just a word game. 21st Century English is not the language of just a few short decades ago. Because of epic dark ages that repeat themselves during the rise and falls of global governments, so we will see this discussion again in a few hundred years. There is little under this Sun any man or woman can lay claim to that is original.
Ebbs and Eddies of time-space bring about the repetition of human events because choices made without judgment or foreknowledge. The “lessons-of-the-past-not-learned” play a role in this cycle of the rise and fall. Wisdom or mere chance will be at the heart of future debate over freewill or destiny of fate.
Knowing the cultural neighborhood in the current times we live is of course important. So important that before even becoming a tourist, one should research the destination to avoid conflicts or heartache. Ideologies are fundamental to academic success. Ideological wars brew every year a new tempest that young leaders (and old ones) must prepare to address in the best voice possible. Failing in this task brings at each tick of the clock a future world to rest on the brink of an argument with a potential to bring about chaos in our newest global order.
Communications rests in the hands of all who can speak, write, or song: addressing to find solutions to the arguments that divide us. To that greater view, I hold there is little difference today than at any other era when one must use Rhetoric to muster the apologetics of the moment. Good manners with sound thought to use rhetorical constructs in many languages that could attract new friends and turn away any angered enemy is my goal in learning to master writing at Texas Tech University.
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Finally, I got to read/hear the text today (July 27, 2010)… reflection well, a bit belated -> I was shocked at the discontinuity of the overall structure of this chapter with the rest of the textbook. As often happens, editors who integrate large context from different sources can omit critical factors when cutting and pasting to create something new but not from their own inkwell. A view of the world changes greatly when one gets older. So one must disclose I have seen over a fifty years of various textbooks and computer aided courseware. The introduction of the concept for Rhetoric, Ideology, and construct of thought perspectives that define Ancient, Renaissance, and Modern Thought with a framework in Philosophy built upon a foundation of human nature. This task in reading this and the limited time to append my original module one will require some forgiveness as I read and try to be focused on the text as a segment of a work that is not provided.
The Module one sub-page as it is defined in the Module page of our Distance Blog Guide lends its tasking to a glorious “to do” list. So with some delay, I am at it here to attach, append, and amend this post one last time.
After reading the chapter, my initial response to the reading was really not printable! I am now extremely interested in this course, the time and resources that generated it and what is the real ultimate goal of TTU First Year Writing. Especially WIIFM aspects as an older student, as a consumer, as a future law student, and as tax payer how this new online digital portfolio will advance my learning to write better. I am confused why the methodology would be so invasive to the actual subject matter for this course. Learning to write at a college level should include how to form arguments and to respond to position or the dissertations of others for the betterment of the community at large. Online methodologies should not distract from the process of acquisitioning new knowledge with the related skills and abilities to demonstrate that knowledge was in fact embraced and incorporated into the student. This course tells us about ideologies… the study of ideas and the related social roots they are connected. Understanding the cultures over the time-line gives us a perspective of what is the motivation and impact of changing paradigms looking back through history. Since the dark ages and possibly further back in epic periods, this current age of learning is only just now rediscovery what was forgotten for a very long time. The essence of the art and science of rhetoric has driven this process of rediscovery and the reawakening of dead languages [Latin, Egyptian, Mayan, and others].
The beginning of the 21 Century we see a new emphasis of academics bantering how we have come a long way “Baby”. True, we are just that “babes” relearning what others before us have mastered. Are there classical demarcations formally defining what we should accept as modern or ancient. Yes, the book tells us how to perceive this deviation. But my own reflection is I do not really accept it as written and that is why I am here in College to research and to hone new skills to tackle the artifacts that are now available online to examine digitally and to transliterate into modern plain English. Rosetta Stone products will be my passage into the past by learning the offspring languages of Latin and eventually other languages that were spawned from the Indo-European language commons. The so called inventions of thought from Greece, Rome, and Alexandria clearly are resurgence of prior cultures. Even in the articles in Chapters 9 & 10 we see the influence of change to the US culture as multicultural embrace of our Modern English presses it into new forms with the creation of new words, sounds, and music. Language can be representative as Locke would have us believe. In addition, language can evolve via enumerations as is accomplished in computer science. Computer Languages are mere subsets of English and English is a variant of more ancient languages that have recombined over the past four hundred years.
It is unclear where our language will arrive or when it will stop mutating. It is my belief language as we now use it is a limiter. There was a time when all was passed down by those who were described as the remembering ones. Some who academically wrote on this mistakenly believes this was just merely an oral tradition passed on from generations to generation. Since History by conquering nations often required the destruction of these persons, little of this practice is really known today. With the advent of hierarchical text with graphics and rich media
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we may once again rediscover new “old” aspects of being a rhetor and becoming a person who can orally promote knowledge through the thoughtful process of apologetics. Understanding the people in their shared beliefs as attributed to a locale or to a race or to a people committed to a central shared religion in necessary to know how to truly understand them and to solve problems together via diplomacy of leaders trained in Rhetoric. As modern people we tend to claim we embrace truth first, but we are more like the ancients than we would like to admit. The book stated that Ancients valued the language, the oratory, the methods of influence over the masses, and they were not willing to be limited to the truth. The ancients could be said to practice NLP and mass suggestion to control their culture within their society. As Orwellian it may seem, modern warfare has brought back to the current day these same practices via global news agencies and political movements in the past 100 years. It is the words that create memories or reawaken old ones. The language we choose is used to express and direct our energy to accomplish work in the ears, hearts, and minds of people that will read, reflect, and relate to our constructs of thoughts.
Topology of the places in history where people have chosen to live can become and create markers in the spoken or written languages. When historical events encourage or force migration, then we can see over time demonstrable changes in the language both in intonation and detonation. The technology of publishing the written words also brings about the changes of evolving fonts, graphics, and today even animations. Some have in the past and today accepted that some words in our language evoke something beyond the mere enumerations associated with it in a dictionary. The modern studies of the brain has revealed that the chemistry of the person is affected by the frequency, repetition of context, and the manner in which it is displayed or conveyed to an audience. For the past thirty years this rediscovery of language “affects” can be seen demonstrated at Rap, Rock, Country, and Gospel events.
Shamans also knew this in the ancient past and more modernist like Norman Vincent Peale knew the power of the positiveness of words and the tonality of the language to bring about changes in our lives. The native language was an integral part of cultural identities. That is why military conquest required the process of killing the language of those who were considered to be strong enemies. This was a practice of the Churches in Europe and of the military in conquest of indigenous people for the past 200o years. USA even today obstructs the old languages of First Nations People and would have many believe such languages were somehow defective. Language can be both a dialect and a tongue. A tongue would be French, Japanese, or Dine’. The dialect would be something in the way the tongue is delivering the words that flavors it to a region, tribe, clan, or period in time. All of this is integral to the identity of ancients and of moderns though a modern person may be in denial of this truth.
Virtualization has shown how we can as communicators change the perception of our realities. As we learn this in the 21 Century, I am reminded of the ancient texts that spoke of word that could create something out of nothing. From Hollywood to our desktop computers or game boxes, this is more true than ever before as best one can tell. Wow! Both then and now we as Human accept that words can harm, heal, help, or hurt others expose to them. Words in any language can begin or stop conflicts. Words alone are not enough to truly communicate our thoughts. As of this writing there is a new age of communication upon us in the 21 Century. I am excited to discover more about it.
Ancient Cannons of Western Rhetoric:
- invention~ deciding assess your position and the premise perspectives you will present
- disposition~ Flow… ordered sequential construction by design
- expression~ calculate choice of words and response the words will create
- memory~ establish cognitive recall naturally or practiced
- delivery~ orally or via rich media
